Federal authorities arrested a Texas physician and six others today on charges they bilked Medicare and Medicaid of $375 billion. Officials from the Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services staged a press conference in Dallas Tuesday to announce the unsealing of indictments against Dr. Jacques Roy, 54, and others they allege … Read more
Frederick Field, a former anesthesiologist at Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles is accused of sexually abusing patients. A patient at Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles told hospital officials she’d been sexually abused by a doctor in an operating room three years before similar reports from other women prompted the hospital to call police. http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2012/01/mid-columbia_medical_center_in.html
Claim closure is a major event in your patient’s work injury claim. What is your role in closing a worker’s compensation case? As the attending physician, you are the most important participant in the closing of a worker’s compensation claim. The attending physician is given extraordinary responsibilities in the closing and many of these responsibilities … Read more